100th International Women's Day

100th International Women’s Day x March for RH, 8 March 2011

11 Filipino women die every day due to maternal complication, and million other women suffer health risks as the Reproductive Health Bill remain un-passed. Our youth is faced with the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases because of the lack of proper and substantive guidance as to their sexuality. Families remain and babies are born submerged in inherited poverty because the choice on desired family size and the access to the necessary means to achieve that are deprived from them.


International Women's Day March. More than 2,000 people marched from España to Mendiola during the morning. That number more than doubled for the RH March to Batasan during the afternoon.



My first boss: staunch human rights activist, former FDC Vice-President and current CHR Chair Etta Rosales.

More than 7,000 people (mostly women) participated in the 6km RH rally from CHR to Batasan.

Mini-concert in front of Congress. Aiza Seguerra, Cynthia Alexander and Imago were some of the artists who performed.

Former Akbayan Rep. Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel came to show her support.

March 8 is Women’s Day. Sadly, 11 more women will die today, not because we lack the resources, knowledge or means to save them, but because our society and the tyrannic morality of the Catholic Church continue to deny women their right to their bodies and their ovaries.

This is what we and our bigotry, as a society, have brought upon ourselves, especially our young, our women, our sisters, our mothers. ☮